'hillbilly' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone from a rural area who is seen as uneducated or unsophisticated. For example: "My grandparents are hillbillies who live in the Appalachian Mountains and have never seen a computer."
At the age of 14, while still at Compton junior college in California, she started a singing career, performing hillbilly songs with her father on the radio, and solo with touring bands.
Levi-Strauss was a nice fellow, but got too big for his britches; Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, was a "hillbilly son of a bitch".
A mixture of almost everything he had ever heard, from Minnie Pearl to Sibelius, from Art Tatum to Chopin, from the Baptist choir in Greenville (in which he sang) to hillbilly players strumming on their guitars.
Over the past year five banks in various states have applied to switch to the national charter.Some of America's biggest conglomerates such as American International Group, General Electric and General Motors own thrifts, which means that the OTS is not just some hillbilly domestic supervisor but oversees some highly complex and opaque global operations.
Tell a hillbilly joke at a smart dinner party and everyone will laugh.
Presley was sheltered from the tumults of the 1960s, his main concern, it seems, being competition from younger stars: on bad days, he liked to say that his mouth felt "like Bob Dylan slept in it".In his cocoon, Presley could be a hillbilly Luftmensch, drifting from fad to fad.
Soon he changed his name to Les Paul and began playing in local hillbilly music bands.Before long Mr Paul was performing with the most elegant bands on radio and in posh nightclubs.
Only four other cast members have been ever-present: Rick's son Carl Glennn, an ex-pizza delivery man and the conscience of the group; Carol, who started the series as an abused wife; and Daryl, the crossbow-wielding, motorbike-riding hillbilly who is the favourite of many fans.
If she wants posters in high-visibility but illegal places like telephone poles, she'll have to find a renegade.On the last night of the festival we catch a string of excellent American bands: Kings of Leon, who are hillbilly rockers; my favourite band, Spoon; and the newly reunited Stooges.Even for the working people tonight feels like off-duty.
If so, any hillbilly could block progress.
She was a teenager when she began singing hillbilly songs on radio and performing in nightclubs, stints that helped her to break into the film industry.
